Moe and Taz surely could be culpable for doing that.
Except, they COULD be truthful about the phone call to Stern (timewise, and assuming there WAS one), because whatever call Stern got at 1:15 might not have been THAT call, but another one we don't know about.
If they WERE deliberately confusing the timeline, my next question is, were they in Stern's pocket in so doing? Or covering for their own mistakes, for some reason.
If they truly did fudge it because of their link to Stern, and something came to light with the police that made THEM look bad, perhaps they jumped out of Stern's pocket and began to rat him out.
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Ya think?